However, Love told The Observer that she would not give her blessing to such a project.

"There will be no musical. Sometimes it's best just to leave things alone," she said.

Love said she had only allowed Cobain's music to be used in projects once in the past. "I said yes once - to Baz Luhrmann to use eight seconds of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' in Moulin Rouge. But he wasn't allowed to use it in the marketing. I didn't get the part in the film. I was so pissed off I made up the term to 'Baz' somebody."

The singer also revealed she was in talks with director Brett Morgan for a biopic about her life since Cobain's death aged 27 in 1994.